Five Years On, 2,992 - 19 Lives Remembered

Today's remembrances of 9/11 use an official count of 2,973 people who died at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.

Someone at CBS News this morning goofed and used 2,992, a count that includes the 19 hijackers, as this screen grab from Google News shows:

CBS News: Five Years On, 2,992 Lives Remembered

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That's right, those 19 lives were lost long before 9/11.

God Bless our Troops!

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